On Wed, 5 Nov 2025 13:08:19 GMT, David Beaumont <[email protected]> wrote:

>> Creates a new, narrowed API explicitly for use by jlink, which view the 
>> resource entries in a jimage file without the re-mapping of names and 
>> invention of synthetic entries inherent in ImageReader.
>> 
>> Another good reason to express this new API as something other than 
>> ImageReader is that, to fix issues such as 
>> [JDK-8357249](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8357249), we don't want to 
>> have the (System)ImageReader class used directly in jlink code. It's just 
>> the wrong abstraction and will make it harder to refactor jlink to use a 
>> non-singleton API with a controlled lifetime later. 
>> 
>> I've not added unit tests for the new API (yet), but the fact the 
>> PackagedModulesVsRuntimeImageLinkTest passes with preview content in the 
>> jimage file means that it's working as expected.
>
> David Beaumont has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
> commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Added copyright notice and tidied a couple of comments.

src/java.base/share/classes/jdk/internal/jimage/ResourceEntries.java line 1:

> 1: /*

This is a copy of the notice in BasicImageReader, so I assume the clause about 
the GPL is correct.
Please let me know if not.

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PR Review Comment: 
https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/1721#discussion_r2494414833

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